Re: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello Stan,

> On Jan 22, 2024, at 4:25 PM, Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Please see the last paragrraph of the message; it may provide a clue for
> ppc (and probably ppc64).
> 
> Mr. Simon McVittie seems to be saying that debian-devel isn't the right
> place for these kinds of issues, since Debian 8 was the last supported
> version of Debian for ppc. Perhaps the bug report he submitted will
> address the problem.

It’s not a powerpc-specific problem as he admits himself. The whole discussion about the powerpc port being unofficial is therefore moot.

> Trying this on amd64, it appears that the problem you encountering is
> probably that libelogind, elogind's partial replacement for libsystemd,
> does not appear to provide all of the functions required by the current
> versions of important packages like procps: procps currently requires
> libsystemd0 (>= 254), and libelogind only provides a replacement for
> version 252. I've reported this libelogind limitation as a bug in
> elogind.

Which proves my point.

Adrian